Performance of Cellular CDMA with Truncated and Limited Power Control Schemes in Presence of Soft Handoff

Effects of soft handoff on the performance of three power control schemes in cellular CDMA are investigated. Outage performance of truncated and limited power control schemes is studied incorporating soft handoff and compared with a conventional strength based power control. The effects of truncation/ limitation probabilities, power control error (pce), soft handoff parameters and shadowing correlation on the performance of these power control schemes have also been indicated. While truncation performs better for higher range of traffic intensity, power limitation is found to out perform both conventional and truncation schemes for lower traffic.